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A New Beginning
Today I was getting ready to post this shot with the usual blah, blah commentary when I decided to mix it up and give you some insight into the other side of “Adventure in Fine Art Photography.”
I was so exhausted after photobombing the Canadian Rockies with my bro-tog William McIntosh that when I returned home after three years of on-off travel. I for the first time unpacked all of my camera/camping gear, Everything …..All of my packs cleaned on the rack and the lenses cleaned on the shelf and the winter weather gear all dried and in soft bags ready to grab in case my psycotic bro-tog Bill calls frantically at midnight wanting a 1 hour departure schedule to run off chasing some cloud bank heading northeast at 11 miles an hour, You do know Bill, that the definition of insane is when someone does the exact same things and expects a different result. Ironic, the life basis of a serious landscape photographer is just that, Hehe. Oh Snap, does that mean we’re all psycho?
So, I decided to subject myself to a social experiment and undergo a “photo-fast” if you will. No social Media or Camera!!!
The very first time that I took a camera out into the landscape, I was hooked, it was the very place that my heart has been since my childhood and up until that point, my life totally revolved around Photoshop and the Macintosh. and since that was my career and how I made a living it’s all I did, I spent twenty years doing nothing socially “unless my wife dragged me into it” but learn and study Photoshop and have been a mac addict since the very beginning. The experiment for me was, could I go back to my old life and be content?
It wasn’t bad in the beginning since i just had an 11 day glut of Canada, where we flew into the backcountry by helicopter froze our buts off at 4am several mornings and shot in temps of -10c, who could miss that? As the weeks rolled by It began, the shake. It was just a slight tremble at first and then by week 8 I was walking around like tweak from Southpark. I needed to shoot and I needed it bad, haha.
I decided to put that “tweak” energy to work for me and rebuild my entire office from the ground up, into a media streaming and photoshop training center. All dual monitor computers with dual processors hacked with faster processors and stuffed with SSD raids all rebuilt to match the speed of my 2016 Macbook Pro which has screamed since day one and is still as fast as the day I purchased it, or should I say mortgaged it. I had to ball it up into a home refi. Freaking Apple, I can’t believe their prices, but still worth every penny of productivity. Luckily, all the upgrades were made possible by “Hey Dude” shoes they donated the systems and I maxed em’ out with money I made doing workshops and parts that were donated to me!!!
If you’ve never heard of “Hey Dude” shoes try em out, super comfortable loafers and a great price. “end advert”……. There now that’s out of the way, on to the “tale of the take”.
This is a shot that Bill and I had seen when scouting for the trip. Paul Ziska has alway inspired me so it was no shock that Bill loved his work as well so it was no contest what to do on this dreary, lightless overcast morning. We showed up around 5am and while we walked around the lakeshore ran into Aaron Dowling teaching a workshop to a gaggle of Aussie photographers. Check him out he’s got some amazing shots from the provincial portions of North America. We waited and hoped but no luck just some soft light with no color, :-( But we still had 9 days of photo-bliss ahead of us.
I would like to wish everyone a Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Thanks for following along on my photography adventures.
A New Beginning
Today I was getting ready to post this shot with the usual blah, blah commentary when I decided to mix it up and give you some insight into the other side of “Adventure in Fine Art Photography.”
I was so exhausted after photobombing the Canadian Rockies with my bro-tog William McIntosh that when I returned home after three years of on-off travel. I for the first time unpacked all of my camera/camping gear, Everything …..All of my packs cleaned on the rack and the lenses cleaned on the shelf and the winter weather gear all dried and in soft bags ready to grab in case my psycotic bro-tog Bill calls frantically at midnight wanting a 1 hour departure schedule to run off chasing some cloud bank heading northeast at 11 miles an hour, You do know Bill, that the definition of insane is when someone does the exact same things and expects a different result. Ironic, the life basis of a serious landscape photographer is just that, Hehe. Oh Snap, does that mean we’re all psycho?
So, I decided to subject myself to a social experiment and undergo a “photo-fast” if you will. No social Media or Camera!!!
The very first time that I took a camera out into the landscape, I was hooked, it was the very place that my heart has been since my childhood and up until that point, my life totally revolved around Photoshop and the Macintosh. and since that was my career and how I made a living it’s all I did, I spent twenty years doing nothing socially “unless my wife dragged me into it” but learn and study Photoshop and have been a mac addict since the very beginning. The experiment for me was, could I go back to my old life and be content?
It wasn’t bad in the beginning since i just had an 11 day glut of Canada, where we flew into the backcountry by helicopter froze our buts off at 4am several mornings and shot in temps of -10c, who could miss that? As the weeks rolled by It began, the shake. It was just a slight tremble at first and then by week 8 I was walking around like tweak from Southpark. I needed to shoot and I needed it bad, haha.
I decided to put that “tweak” energy to work for me and rebuild my entire office from the ground up, into a media streaming and photoshop training center. All dual monitor computers with dual processors hacked with faster processors and stuffed with SSD raids all rebuilt to match the speed of my 2016 Macbook Pro which has screamed since day one and is still as fast as the day I purchased it, or should I say mortgaged it. I had to ball it up into a home refi. Freaking Apple, I can’t believe their prices, but still worth every penny of productivity. Luckily, all the upgrades were made possible by “Hey Dude” shoes they donated the systems and I maxed em’ out with money I made doing workshops and parts that were donated to me!!!
If you’ve never heard of “Hey Dude” shoes try em out, super comfortable loafers and a great price. “end advert”……. There now that’s out of the way, on to the “tale of the take”.
This is a shot that Bill and I had seen when scouting for the trip. Paul Ziska has alway inspired me so it was no shock that Bill loved his work as well so it was no contest what to do on this dreary, lightless overcast morning. We showed up around 5am and while we walked around the lakeshore ran into Aaron Dowling teaching a workshop to a gaggle of Aussie photographers. Check him out he’s got some amazing shots from the provincial portions of North America. We waited and hoped but no luck just some soft light with no color, :-( But we still had 9 days of photo-bliss ahead of us.
I would like to wish everyone a Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Thanks for following along on my photography adventures.